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Category: Writing Prompt Stories

Weekly Poetry Prompt: Favorite or Least Favorite Carnival Rides

August 19, 2017

Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about your favorite or least favorite carnival ride. Carnival by Carol R. Ward The carnival, the carnival! Let’s go to the carnival! There’s games and food and rides – Test your skill or loop the loop It’s so hard to decide. The carousel spins round and round as…
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Weekly Poetry Prompt: About the House

August 12, 2017

Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about your house (or a house you want). Do you like it? Love it? Hate it? Does it hate you? My House by Jamie DeBree Four green walls, Three more for the garage, A boundary between me and the world. Fifties-style plan, Four bedrooms if you squint, Not…
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Weekly Prose Prompt Stories: Metamorphosis

August 6, 2017

Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about some sort of metamorphosis, what triggered it and whether the outcome was expected or not. Metamorphosis by Jamie DeBree They’re all staring. This was a really bad idea. Mary Coulter adjusted the strap of her new leather satchel for the one-hundredth time on her shoulder and kept walking,…
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Weekly Prose Prompt: Meeting a Dragon

July 30, 2017

Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Someone who’s never seen a dragon before is just seeing one for the first time. What do they see? Feel? Hear? What happens to them after (do they run, stay, escape, get eaten)? An Unconventional Arrangement by Carol R. Ward Princess Noreen was putting away her clean laundry when she…
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Poetry Prompt: Jewelry Legends

July 29, 2017

Poetry Prompt of the Week: Pick a piece of jewelry (watch, earrings, necklace, cuff links, whatever) and make up a legend about it. Write the legend as a poem. We have two similar legends this week…necklaces/pendents really do lend themselves well to legends, don’t you think? The Witch’s Daughters by Carol R. Ward The legend:…
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Poetry Prompt: Just Desserts

July 22, 2017

Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about your favorite summer dessert. We’re trying something new this week. Poetry from the poetry prompt writings will be posted on Saturdays (the best five poems will be posted), and stories for the prose prompt will be posted on Sundays. Check back tomorrow for this week’s story! In…
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Of Grasshoppers & Spats in the Park

July 15, 2017

Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a grasshopper/grasshoppers. Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: A fight breaks out at a picnic in the park. Passing by when it happens are a woman jogging with a stroller, a man with ear buds connected to his cell having a loud discussion with someone, and a teen…
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“Roses”, “Planting Trees”, and “The Great Debate”

July 1, 2017

Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: It’s the time of year when gardens everywhere are just begging to hear people’s private thoughts. Write about a character sharing his or her inner monologue with the flowers…and whether or not the garden (or a garden eavesdropper) replies… Poetry Prompt of the Week: Roses are blooming everywhere, and…
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“First Kiss” and “Skills” by Jamie DeBree

June 24, 2017

Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about a fictional first job interview. Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a (yours, or someone else’s) first kiss. First Kiss by Jamie DeBree It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Smooth, slimy skin mashing my lips, like a snail spreading awkward wetness. His energy and…
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“Ivy” and “Kudzu” by Carol R. Ward, “Innocent Evil” by Jamie DeBree

June 17, 2017

Prose Writing Prompt of the Week: Write about an incident that ends up being the backstory for another incident in the character’s current timeline. Poetry Prompt of the Week: Write a poem about a vine, doing its vine-y thing… Our prose prompt was a bit too obscure it seems, but we have two poems and a story…
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